From en.wiktionary.org:
[Corporation]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], past participle of [la]; see
[en].
[protruding belly] Perhaps a play on the word [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A body corporate , created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
2. * [chapter=2]
3. The municipal governing body of a borough or city .
4. [en] In Fascist Italy , a joint association of employers ' and workers ' representatives .
5. [en] A protruding belly .
6. * [volume=II]
7. * 1918 , [Katherine Mansfield] , ‘Prelude’, _Selected Stories_ , Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:
8. *: 'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a CORPORATION .'
9. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1974 | author=w:GB Edwards | title=The Book of Ebenezer Le Page | page=316 | year_published=2007 | location=New York
|passage=He was a big chap with a CORPORATION already, and a flat face rather
like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2001 | author= [Jamie O'Neill] | title=w:At Swim, Two Boys | location=London | publisher=Scribner | section=Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620 | url=https://archive.org/details/atswimtwoboys00onei/page/620/mode/1up?q=corporation
|passage=The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he
threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering his
CORPORATION with as much as his body and limbs would allow.}}
**** Hyponyms
- [body corporate] [en] , [en] [UK]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|agricorporation|anticorporation|bancorporation|corporational|corporationwide|cybercorporation|decorporation|intercorporation|megacorporation|noncorporation|subcorporation|supercorporation|corporation
bus|corporation tax|B corporation|benefit corporation|C
corporation|corporation aggregate|corporation pop|corporation sole|Crown
corporation|crown corporation|de facto corporation|municipal
corporation|owners corporation|quasi corporation|S corporation|shell
corporation|sole corporation|eleemosynary corporation }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
[en]
**** Translations
[body corporate with legal personality]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[company owned by shareholders]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[governing body of the City of London]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[Italian association]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[slang, dated, humorous: protruding belly] [trans-bottom]
**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
[en]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en]
2. guild
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]